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RACHAEL MINOTT

Artist,
Researcher,
Curator, Facilitator

Rachael is a curator of art and anthropology. Her practice is informed by decolonial theory as such it is:

X driven by ethical and equitable collaborations,

X de-centres a western colonial lens

X challenges established ways of working

X is informed by and embraces criticism

X prioritises self-care and communal care

X explores absences and silences

X uses creativity to reimagine ways of working

The Windrush Generation: Memories of Family - Horniman Museum and Gardens

Within and Without: Body Image and the Self, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery - Museums Association

The Past is Now: Birmingham and the British Empire, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery - Museums Association

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Story Lab

Photos Copyright Birmingham Museums Trust

Rachael Minott in a sunflower print dress speaking in theHorniman Musuem and Gardens, World Gallery, Africa

Gallery shot featuring full view of the salon hang, foregrounded by Guns in a display case and the exhibition interpretation for representation, the environment and guns in Birmingham

Exhibition title: The Past is Now: Birmingham and the British Empire and introductory text

Close up shot of salon hang, featuring Lubaina Himids work prominently, next to Keith Pipers, Vanley Burke's, a mirror and a series of pencil drawings

Gallery shot of exhibition showing text on Kenyan independence, teh salon hang and sectiosn on guns in Birmingham, the environment and capitalism in the background

two bronze busts a male and female in foreground, and section text on eugenics featuring two coloured anthropological photographs of a man and woman

Kenyan Independence sections showing, section text, paining entitled' Mau Mau' and a display case, with a wooden gun, other make shift weapons and archival material

Gallery shot showing central column with objects and exhibition title, and background showing the gallery divided into thirds with the central third has a dark room with curtain

Exhibition title: 'Within and Without: Body Image and the Self' and introductory text, large print text and a comment box which reads: What do you think?

Gallery shot of exhibition show, Francis Bacon artwork in front, in background there is a wooden wheelchair, Kwakwaka’wakw sculpture in a case, a series of old dolls in a case and a print by Barbara walker

Panel text on Colourism in foreground, in background is a mask in a case, a photograph of Lilly Collins, a pre-Raphaelite pencil drawing and a selection of tiles by the artist Matt Smith

Panel text on colourism in teh foreground. Background shows tiles by Matt Smith, a series of photographs and a pink vanity and stool

a print by Barbara Walker, is next to a pre-Raphaelite drawing of a woman breastfeeding, a south Asian woman's photograph on a calendar, a black and white photograph of a woman in a Sari by Vanley Burke, a mirror and a yellow rocking chair in the foreground with a pillow embroidered with illustrative breast

Exhibitions

Birmingham Musuem and Art Gallery

Supporting the redvelopement June 2022-March 2024

The Black Cultural Archives

Re-staging: Stories of Black Leadership II: Breaking Barriers, 29 February 2020- June 2021

Horniman Museums and Gardens, Windrush Stories, June 2019

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Within and Without: Body Image and the Self, July 2018 - May 2019

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

The Past is Now: Birmingham and the British Empire, Oct 2017- June 2018

Robert Sainsbury Library

Daughters of the Island: Stories from the Marjorie King Collection Mar 2017 - Mar 2018

London Transport Museum

Open to All, A Black History Month Display, Oct 2015

London Transport Museum

Don't. Please. Thank You. Poster Parade Apr 2015 - July 2015

London Transport Museum

A Century of Creativity, Poster Parade, Jan 2015-April 2015

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